tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194181216717132105.post5672391928265461968..comments2015-01-30T11:06:42.242+00:00Comments on Borders Family History Society: LostCousins Free until Sunday, September 5th 2010Peter Munrohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07076063723948804705noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194181216717132105.post-35246834075199531562010-10-02T10:04:24.137+01:002010-10-02T10:04:24.137+01:00Niall,
In the end, I forewent some sleep and got t...Niall,<br />In the end, I forewent some sleep and got the sources, typed them in to Lost Cousins, and.....got no matches.<br /><br />My initial view is that when you see somebody&#39;s family tree on the web, then if you&#39;re interested you contact them and ask for corroborating sources. I&#39;d be happy just to see a standard text on a website saying &quot;sources available&quot; or &quot;presumed&quot; after each entry or a group of entries.<br /><br />I didn&#39;t always think this - on holiday in America about 10 years ago, I met people in DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution), and who claimed to be Descendants of Charlemagne, and Descendants of Julius Caesar.<br /><br />Many of their claims may well be valid however none that I met had actually done enough research to be fairly certain, some had done no research at all, and none offered to show me corroborating sources.Peter Munronoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9194181216717132105.post-52809082235863136532010-09-30T10:42:54.779+01:002010-09-30T10:42:54.779+01:00Ah, that wonderful dilemma, how much do I record? ...Ah, that wonderful dilemma, how much do I record? . . . . Everything :-)<br />I haven&#39;t been researching my FH for long but I have learnt one lesson, note down everything you can about your sources, you and other people need to find them easily in the future.<br />I have had the opposite experience to you, I started from the web census information and graduated to microfilms.<br />My pet annoyance is people who publish ancestral trees without any sources, so when I started building my own site I was determined to prove as much of my research as possible. <br />That&#39;s when I ran into the problem of insufficient data, I felt and still feel that I had to be able to supply the means whereby other people could check my research. Merely stating that Joe Bloggs lived with his family at a particular address in 1881 wasn&#39;t enough, so now I&#39;m going back through ALL my data getting reference info, so that a viewer can look up Joe Bloggs in 1881 on microfilm for themselves. In some cases I know I found evidence of particular events but I didn&#39;t write down enough details and now I can&#39;t find them so how can I prove I&#39;m telling the truth?<br />I haven&#39;t looked at LostCousins but I understand why they want the info they do.<br />And NO I haven&#39;t got the correct info on my site YET, but I&#39;m working on it.Niall Scotthttp://rankine-scott.me.uknoreply@blogger.com